Posted on 02/14/2011, 10:45 am, by mySteinbach

Around 2:30am, on February 13, 2011, officers from the Dauphin Municipal RCMP Detachment conducted a traffic stop on 1st Avenue S.E. after observing a vehicle nearly hit a snowbank.

The driver of the vehicle, a 19-year-old Dauphin man, showed signs of being intoxicated and was arrested for impaired driving.

RCMP report that the driver later refused to provide samples of his breath.

The man has been released from custody to appear in court on March 15, 2011.